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that's kind of gross, but that's what he did. >>> highly anticipated hearings on the obama care website drew a lot of attention, but one congresswoman in particular drew jon stewart's ire. >> of course the master of anti-obama care grand standing marsha blackburn who made clear that no matter [ bleep ] some people like it that way. >> what do you say to mark and lucinda in my district who have a plan, they liked it, it was affordable, but it is being it terminated and now they do not have health insurance? i will remind you, some people like to drive a ford not a ferrari and some people like to drink out of a red solo cup, not crystal stem. >> seems like she has a lot of questions. hopefully three hours will be enough time for the congresswoman to get all the information she so -- wait. is she getting up? that's weird. at 10:21, is she leaving? oh, my god, she's walking out of the room. was she going back to research some insurance facts perhaps to refill her red solo cup? >> joining us now is representative marsha blackburn who was in the hearing, asked some terrific questions. she joi
that's kind of gross, but that's what he did. >>> highly anticipated hearings on the obama care website drew a lot of attention, but one congresswoman in particular drew jon stewart's ire. >> of course the master of anti-obama care grand standing marsha blackburn who made clear that no matter [ bleep ] some people like it that way. >> what do you say to mark and lucinda in my district who have a plan, they liked it, it was affordable, but it is being it terminated and now...
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care act website, and the problem is, that's only one barometer for failure. and the other problem is those who have actually assigned up for the exchanges. >> reporter: even the president admits healthcare.gov has problems >> right now, the website is too slow, and people have gone stuck >> but just how many people have gotten stuck or how many have enrolled are figures that the obama administration has been denying the public for days now. >> you have no numbers on who has enrolled? >> we'll have them mid november. >> exact numbers in the first days were off to a slow start. by the second day, only 248 people had enrolled nationwide. unique visitors in the first 24 hours. the chairman of the oversight committee requested and released the notes. and he's one of the republicans already calling for health and human secretary, kathleen sebelius, to be fired over the website glitches, and now he's demanding answers on ep role. numbers through a subpoena. in a statement, he said: secretary sebelius insists that the enrollment numbers to the site are not reliable r
care act website, and the problem is, that's only one barometer for failure. and the other problem is those who have actually assigned up for the exchanges. >> reporter: even the president admits healthcare.gov has problems >> right now, the website is too slow, and people have gone stuck >> but just how many people have gotten stuck or how many have enrolled are figures that the obama administration has been denying the public for days now. >> you have no numbers on who...
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. >>> the obama administration has been saying that millions of people visited the website to signup for health care, but the actual number who enrolled was extremely low. >> reporter: even the president admits healthcare.gov has problems. but just how many people have gotten stuck or enrolled are figures the obama administration has been denying the public for days now? >> you have no numbers on who has enrolled? >> we'll have those numbers available mid-november. >> reporter: but exact enrollment numbers were off to a slow start. by the end of the second day only 248 people has enrolled nationwide. a staggering statistic considering the site had nearly 1 million visitors in the first 24 hours. some are calling for kathleen sebelius to be fired because of the problems. now he is demanding answers on enrollment numbers through a somebody, in a statement issa said . . . >> reporter: secretary sebelius insists enrollment numbers to the site are not reliable right now. they are be released by mid-november. meanwhile she said the site is up and running and accepting indications albeit a
. >>> the obama administration has been saying that millions of people visited the website to signup for health care, but the actual number who enrolled was extremely low. >> reporter: even the president admits healthcare.gov has problems. but just how many people have gotten stuck or enrolled are figures the obama administration has been denying the public for days now? >> you have no numbers on who has enrolled? >> we'll have those numbers available mid-november....
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the obama administration says the website will be running smoothly by november 30 -th. some employees at the homeland security department have been abusing an overtime program. a report from an independent government investigator says some employees were paid about two hours of overtime nearly every day but spent much of that time watching television, surfing the internet or otherwise relaxing at their desks. the report also says this cost the government $8.7 million. secretary of state john kerry admits in some cases u-s surveillance programs have gone too far. kerry made the comments while addressing the open government partnership annual summit meeting in london via video conference. he says a lot of good has come out of the programs information gathering going back to world war two. but the president is reviewing the process to make sure workers are not abusing the system. >>erica: i do want to specifically breakdown in our afternoon highs expected for you today. today will be warmer than yesterday but we are experiencing chilly temperatures. for those of you and lo
the obama administration says the website will be running smoothly by november 30 -th. some employees at the homeland security department have been abusing an overtime program. a report from an independent government investigator says some employees were paid about two hours of overtime nearly every day but spent much of that time watching television, surfing the internet or otherwise relaxing at their desks. the report also says this cost the government $8.7 million. secretary of state john...
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the obama administration has been criticized for technical problems with the website. >> secretary of state john kerry admits some u.s. surveillance went too far but adds no innocent people were hurt in the process, the secretary will shift focus to the middle east. he visits for the first time since president muhammed morsi was overthrown. >> strong winds are moving east. >> strehl targeting syria again. unnamed officials confirm that israeli war planes struck a port city thursday. it has vowed to react if it believes syrian weapons are being transferred to groups in the region. this is believed to be the fifth attack on syria. israeli is not acknowledging that strike. >> the u.n. arab league envoy has been talking to syria's president hoping he will agree to a geneva two conference. we are joined from beirut, lebanon. he has held extensive talks with syria's president assad this week. is the syrian president any closer to agreeing on round two of peace talks? >> i think that the idea of the geneva two conference is still on the table, but still not set in stone. now, he says clearly
the obama administration has been criticized for technical problems with the website. >> secretary of state john kerry admits some u.s. surveillance went too far but adds no innocent people were hurt in the process, the secretary will shift focus to the middle east. he visits for the first time since president muhammed morsi was overthrown. >> strong winds are moving east. >> strehl targeting syria again. unnamed officials confirm that israeli war planes struck a port city...
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as obama care turns one month old, we are starting to see how serious the glitches on the website were. documents released by house republicans appear to show that just six people were able to enroll for health insurance on opening day. a day later, 248. >> you are talking in one office, right? >> this is disclosed by the republicans. notes from internal meetings describe the widespread issues. one of them, the high volume. troubles with direct enrollment and problems with the v.a. system and credit check information. the administration says it expected early enrollment numbers to be low. >> come on. this is 300 million people plus live in this country and they can -- this is their landmark achievement. they have had two years to prepare for it and only six people can enroll. only six people can enroll. >> that's a bad headline. i don't think it's the case now. let's see. >> no, you know why we don't know? >> we don't know. >> because they won't release the numbers. they have the numbers and refuse to release them. >> they say the documents are just notes and not official numbers. >> t
as obama care turns one month old, we are starting to see how serious the glitches on the website were. documents released by house republicans appear to show that just six people were able to enroll for health insurance on opening day. a day later, 248. >> you are talking in one office, right? >> this is disclosed by the republicans. notes from internal meetings describe the widespread issues. one of them, the high volume. troubles with direct enrollment and problems with the v.a....